If You Had a Family

by Barbara Sjoholm and Barbara Wilson

Book Overview

25 years after the death of her mother, Cory is still trying to come to terms with her childhood. Through her relationship with another woman and the rediscovery of the creativity and the joy of her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1878067826
• ISBN13: 9781878067821
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A touching story of a woman's search for family

Barbara Wilson paints a beautiful story of realization in "If You Had a Family," a novel that clearly hits close to home (Wilson herself was raised in a Christian Scientist home, as was the family of the main character). Cory's struggle to accept the past and painlessly integrate her memories into her present is portrayed in a gentle and loving manner; though nearing forty, Cory is still a child, still in need of a family and feeling the effects of living alone in a world full of mothers, none of them hers.We sympathize also with Cory during her awkward attempts at finding a surrogate outlet for the emotions that have been repressed within her for decades. A blossoming relationship with activist lawyer Rosemary Reardon (who is a good contrast character to Cory's--one of a brood of Irish Catholic children, she is bubbly where Cory is blase) provides solace for Cory, as does her acquaintance with her brother's children, who in a sense are also hers.